what's the proper buying/playing order for the series

[crazyjosiah86]

with understanding that there many separate games that pertains to the steins;gate/chaos franchise i must inquire the playing order if i was to invest in this series

[GrazzyChanUwU]

Steins;Gate -> Steins;Gate 0
Steins;Gate Linear Bounded Phenogram and Steins;Gate Darling anytime after S;G
Steins;Gate Elite is just a (worse in my opinion) remake of original Steins;Gate
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Robotics;Notes (elite) -> Robotics;Notes Dash
(I'd play R;N after Steins;Gate since there are some characters from it)
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Chaos;Head (Noah) -> Chaos;Child

It doesn't matter much if you play Chaos;Head before Steins;Gate but there are a few references to it.

Hope you enjoy the franchise as much as I did!

[mimizukari]

chaos;head->chaos;head love chu chu->steins;gate->linear bounded phenogram->henri no darling->steins;gate 0->chaos;child->chaos;child love chu chu->occultic;nine->robotics;notes->robotics;notes dash->anonymous;code

it's something like this but basically it's probably better to just play the series in any order you want aside from s;g/r;n as the only really 'sequel' is steins;gate->robotics;notes

[Enorovan]

Actual order is almost the Japanese release order:

Chaos;Head (NoAH) -> (Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu) -> Steins;Gate -> Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace -> Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram -> Robotics;Notes Elite -> Chaos;Child -> (Chaos;Child Love Chu Chu) -> Steins;Gate 0 VN -> Anime -> Robotics;Notes DaSH

Between parentheses are the games still untranslated. You'll notice only the NoAH part is between parentheses for Chaos;Head, because the original version has a 2008 fan-translation. You can read the Occultic;Nine lightnovels at any point after Chaos;Child it doesn't matter.

If you buy most of those games on Steam, most of them have fan-patches that fix up the translation, which you can find here[sonome.dareno.me].

[WaldoTheRanger]

https://www.reddit.com/r/steinsgate/wiki/index
Recommended playing order by the vast majority of the community, as well as a lot of other useful info.
Be sure to get the community made patches if you buy on steam.